Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below been eating white carbs for the past few days. white rice and chicken, white bagels with eggs, and steak and white potatoes. im trying to put on some extra mass before i hit the cutting in march and was wondering if its alright to be eating the white carbs? would it put alot of fat on me?
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I think it would depend on what your are eating with them. Namely saturated fats. Those "white" carb do a good job of spiking insulin. If you are eating them with fatty goods then more than likely you will put on fat.
just chicken breast marinaded in soy sauce and etra virgin olive oil, white ground pepper and garlic powder. the steak, i get a very lean cut, usually flank or sirloin with the fat trimmed.
If you ate the same amount of carbs but they were complex carbs then you would most likely not put on as much fat, but get all of the other benefits plus more fiber.
that makes sense. do you eat white carbs in the bulking season/off season? or do you stick with complex carbs, but larger portions?
mattu3743
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its always good to mix up your carbs between complex and simple carbs. and i believe it also depends on your body type too...
if you're pron to fat and fat storage and if you blow up after eating a carb than stay away for white carbs, but if you're a hard gainer, eat starchy carbs with a little complex carbs
if you're pron to fat and fat storage and if you blow up after eating a carb than stay away for white carbs, but if you're a hard gainer, eat starchy carbs with a little complex carbs
I don't see a reason to intentionally eat hig glycemic carbs other than post workout. Bulk or cut. It's more about portion when it comes to bulking or cutting anyways. And keeping your blood suagr for getting to high and increasing the rate of fat deposition.
If you eat simple carbs during a bulk, you'll just put on even more fat than with using complex carbs with no real additional benefit other than putting on more weight from fat, which is pointless IMO.
I have a faster metabolism and eating complex carbs slow the rate of digestion and allows me to stay leaner when eating high carbs to put on weight.
If you ate 200 grams of carbs from oatmeal, and 200 grams of carbs from bleached white flour, your body will digest and absorb the white flour faster and store it as fat at a greater rate. The oatmeal digests slower, and produces a sustained amount of available energy and doesn't jack up your blood sugar and insulin levels too high during the day, storing less fat.
On a cutting diet, your body can't digest the slow (low GI) carbs at fast enough a rate so it access your fat stores (and some muscle too) for some of the energy. But if you are lifting and eating high amounts of protein, your body will use less muscle and more fat for enrgy, thus dropping fat and leaning up while preserving as much lean mass as possible. When your muscles are broken down from lifting, your body is forced to use fat stores for energy because the signals coming from the muscles are to use energy coming from elswhere for repair, not to give off energy for other means.
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